Côte d’Ivoire

In the Company of Men
by Veronique Tadjo

A haunting book by major African writer Veronique Tadjo. Based around the Ebola epidemic, it gives voice to the patient, the health worker, the forest, the tree, the bat and even the virus itself. The virus fears only one thing, that humans would go against their nefarious nature and start to help each other. A chilling commentary with real relevance in the aftermath of the world's most recent pandemic.

Translated by Veronique Tadjo with John Cullen
Hope Road Publishing, 2021
First published in 2017
ISBN 9781913109790